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HOUSlE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  February   5,   lb63.— Read 

first  and  second  times  and  referred  to  Committee  on  Military  Affairs. 
March  30,  1863. — Reported  back  and  Committee  discharged,  laid  on 
the  table  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Vest,  from  Committee  on  Military  Affairs  ]  . 


A^    BILL 

To  be  entitled  an  act  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  officers  acting 
under  temporary  appointment  from  the  commander  of  any  depart- 
ment, corps,  division  or  brigade. 

1  The  Congress  of  ike  Cotifedcra'c  States  of  America  do  enacty  That 

2  any  officer  doing  duty,  either  on  the  staff  or   in   the    line,  under 

3  temporary  appointment  from  the  commander  of  any  department, 

4  corps,  division  or  brigade  in  the  Provisional  Army  of    the  Con- 

5  federate  States,  shall  receive   the  same  pay,  for  the  time   such 

6  person  may  have  been   actually  engaged   in   service   under  such 

7  appointment,  from  the  disbursing  quartermaster   of  such  depart- 

8  ment,  corps,  division  or  brigade,  or  from   the   disbursing  <i[uar- 

9  termaster  in  the  city  of  Richmond,  as  if    such    person  had  been 


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10  regularly    commissioned    by    the    proper    authority  :      Provided, 

11  That  before  said  payment,  the  person  applying  therefor  shall  file 

12  with  the  quartermaster  the  certificate  of  the  commanding  officer 

13  of  the  department,  corps,  division  or  brigade  in  which  the  appli- 

14  cant  may  have  served,  stating   his   temporary  rank   and   time  of 

15  service,  and  the    affidavit    of    the    party    applying,  before    some 

16  judge  or  justice  of  the  peace,  verifying  said  certificate. 


